Can't understand why you Kiwis get upset when anyone bags your national carrier. And there's my point.... most of the criticism is towards Air NZ not you kiwis as individuals.
Your national carrier IS a basket case because of inept management. A contributor above suggests that 300 million is a lot to get started in OZ. I think 1.3 billion is more like the figure. Thats 1 billion for what they pi$$ed up agaist the wall at the end of 2001 and the 300 mil. they want to spend now. If I was an Air NZ shareholder (and I'm not) I'd be very nervous about now.
Time our corprate governors not only woke up to smell the roses but are somehow held accountable for some of the very very poor decisions made in the boardroom. If I made a bad decision which resulted in a failure (accident or incident) I have no doubt that there would be headlines of "pilot error". Why don't we ever see headlines of "managing director's error".
Anyhoo.... back to the sideline for me.
